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| 1854 | 8 |
| 1858 | 6 |
| 1859 | 4 |
| 1860 | 4 |
| 1861 | 10 |
| 1862 | 11 |
| 1863 | 6 |
| 1864 | 4 |
| 1865 | 2 |
| 1871 | 1 |
| 1872 | 11 |
| 1876 | 115 |
| 1877 | 89 |
| 1878 | 59 |
| 1879 | 5 |
| 1880 | 20 |
| 1882 | 18 |
| 1883 | 101 |
| 1884 | 61 |
| 1885 | 90 |
| 1886 | 36 |
| 1887 | 45 |
| 1888 | 77 |
| 1889 | 142 |
| 1890 | 26 |
| 1891 | 153 |
| 1892 | 287 |
| 1893 | 269 |
| 1894 | 376 |
| 1895 | 487 |
| 1896 | 1 |
| 1897 | 13 |
| 1898 | 29 |
| 1899 | 83 |
| 1900 | 13 |
| 1902 | 5 |
| 1903 | 116 |
| 1904 | 103 |
| 1905 | 11 |
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| 1910 | 48 |
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| 1912 | 5 |
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| 1916 | 43 |
| 1917 | 30 |
| 1918 | 3 |
| 1919 | 1 |
| 1922 | 5 |
| 1923 | 19 |
| 1924 | 15 |
| 1925 | 7 |
| 1928 | 5 |
| 1929 | 9 |
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- A University of Washington Scholar Asks Why Filipino Workers Are Being Pushed Out
In 1928, as Congress weighed excluding Filipinos from the United States, a UW researcher set out to document the migration — and the labor resentments driving it — across Washington, Oregon and Alaska.
- Bremerton's Filipinos Organize, and a Japanese Host Preaches Solidarity
At an informal dinner in Bremerton, a new Filipino Progressive Association installs its officers — and hears a local Japanese businessman argue that the 'brown race' can only reach its goals through Filipino-Japanese unity.
- Seattle Filipino Businessmen Launch Scholarships at the University of Washington
For the first time, Filipino students at the University of Washington could compete for prizes funded by local Filipino entrepreneurs.
- “Close Your Gates to Us — But Give Us Independence First”
A Filipino student in Seattle goes before the Labor Union's legislative committee to head off an exclusion bill, and finds the union men surprisingly reasonable — because independence, he argues, gives them exactly what they want anyway.
- Filipino Students Face a Closing Door at American Universities
A Filipino student leader in New York charges that West Coast universities, including the University of Washington, are quietly shutting out Filipino applicants — admitting just one of twenty last year.
- The Filipino Community That Organized Like Fireworks and Vanished Like Smoke
Seattle's Filipino editor calls out a pattern of flashy associations that burn bright, elect officers before the election, and leave nothing behind but speeches.
- Seattle's Filipino Progress Association Elects Its First Officers
A new civic organization installs a president, a board of managers and a six-month plan — and its leaders argue that running a community association is training for running a government.
- Counting the Invisible: A Census of Filipinos in the Pacific Northwest
A 1929 study estimates roughly 7,000 Filipino workers scattered from Seattle to Alaska — and admits the numbers are guesswork, because many hid their identities from the people counting them.
- The Filipino Answer to a Labor Organizer’s Exclusion Demand
In 1929, Seattle’s Filipino Forum took on the Central Labor Council’s campaign to bar Filipino workers—and dismantled the racist case line by line.